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6 factors to watch in the incoming Trump administration

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20.01.2025
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on January 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. | Scott Olson/Getty Images

President-elect Donald Trump is set to become President Donald Trump — again. And he’s made a lot of promises about what he’s going to do with his executive power.

On immigration, he’s said he’d like to enact mass deportations and end birthright citizenship (which is constitutionally protected), among other things. He’s made grand pledges on foreign policy, telling Americans he can solve the war in Ukraine as easily as you might open a bag of chips. He’s said he’ll reshape our (and the world) economy with sweeping tariffs. And his allies have hinted at even more unorthodox actions as well, including moves that could gut the federal workforce and classify Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.

The bottom line is, if Trump does even a fraction of the things he and his team have floated, he’s going to radically reshape the United States. However, his vision of the future may not come to pass. A president only has so much power, and Trump is infamously mercurial — perhaps he’ll change his mind. And it may be that matters outside his control (for example, a global pandemic) completely warp his policy plans.

All that to say, it’s impossible to predict just what Trump will do. What is possible, however, is creating a framework for thinking about what might happen during his second term.

To help with that, I asked each member of Vox’s politics team to answer a question: What’s the one thing you think is most important for people to keep in mind as Trump returns to power?

Here’s what they had to........

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